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self-satisfied

self-satisfied adjective: satisfied with oneself, especially over-satisfied; smug; slightly arrogant.

Adjective

self-satisfied (comparative more self-satisfied, superlative most self-satisfied)

  1. Satisfied with oneself, especially over-satisfied; smug; slightly arrogant.
    • He stood back and looked at his project with a self-satisfied expression.
    • From another point of view, it was a place without a soul. The well-to-do had hearts of stone; the rich were brutally bumptious; the Press, the Municipality, all the public men, were ridiculously, vaingloriously self-satisfied.1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter XXII, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC
    Synonyms:
    smug, complacent

self-satisfied meaning in Tamil and Malayalam

self-satisfied in Tamil

தன் மனநிறைவு பெற்ற, தன் மன நிறைவிற்குரிய

self-satisfied in Malayalam

pleased with oneself, complacent, self-congratulatory
സ്വയം സംതൃപ്തഭാവമുള്ള, സ്വന്തംനേട്ടങ്ങളിൽ അതിയായ തൃപ്തിയുള്ള, സ്വയം തൃപ്തനായ, സ്വയം സംതൃപ്തനായ, ആത്മതുഷ്ടിയുള്ള, തന്നെത്തന്നെ അഭിനന്ദിക്കുന്ന

Synonyms of self-satisfied

Forms of self-satisfied

comparativemore self-satisfied
superlativemost self-satisfied

Origin of self-satisfied

From self- + satisfied.

Questions about self-satisfied

What does self-satisfied mean?
Self-satisfied means satisfied with oneself, especially over-satisfied; smug; slightly arrogant.
What is self-satisfied in Tamil?
Self-satisfied in Tamil is தன் மனநிறைவு பெற்ற, தன் மன நிறைவிற்குரிய. See Self-satisfied meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is self-satisfied?
Self-satisfied is an adjective.

Words near self-satisfied in the dictionary

  1. self-sacrificing
  2. self-sacrificingly
  3. self-same
  4. self-sames
  5. self-satisfaction
  6. self-satisfied
  7. self-satisfying
  8. self-saucing
  9. self-scan
  10. self-scanned
  11. self-scanning

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Adapted from Wiktionary: self-satisfied (page history and authors); self-satisfied (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); self-satisfied (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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